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 ====== Quick start guide for VSC-5 ====== ====== Quick start guide for VSC-5 ======
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-**Status: 2023/01** 
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-This page is under construction. 
  
 ===== Connecting ===== ===== Connecting =====
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-===== Loading Modules & Spack Environments =====+===== Software installations =====
  
-Different CPUs come with different compilers, so we use +==== New SPACK without environments ====
-the new spack feature ''environment'' to make sure to choose the right +
-package. +
  
-On login the default ''spack environment'' (zen3) is loaded +Having worked with spack environments for some time, we have encountered several severe issues which have convinced us that we need to find a more practical way of maintaining software packages at VSC.
-automatically, so only modules that run on AMD processors are visible +
-with ''spack find''.+
  
-On VSC5 no default modules are loaded. Please do that by yourself +There are now three separate spack installation trees corresponding to the CPU/GPU architectures on VSC:
-using ''spack load <module>'' or ''module load <module>''. +
  
-Find the official SPACK documentation at https://spack.readthedocs.io/+  * skylake - Intel CPUs; works on Intel Skylake and Cascadelake CPUs 
 +  * zen - AMD CPUs; works on Zen 2 and 3 CPUs 
 +  * cuda-zen - AMD CPUs + NVIDIA GPUs; works on all nodes equipped with graphics cards
  
- +By default the spack installation tree suitable for the current compute/login node is activated and will be indicated by a **prefix** on the command line, e.g.:
-==== List Spack Environments ==== +
- +
-Type ''spack env list'' to see which environments are available and +
-which one is active.+
  
 <code> <code>
-$ spack env list +zen [user@l51 ~]$
-==> 2 environments +
-    cascadelake  zen3+
 </code> </code>
  
-The current ''spack environment'' is also shown in your prompt: +Read more about SPACK at: 
- +  * [[doku:spack-transition | Transition to new SPACK without Environments]] 
-<code> +  * [[doku:spack]] 
-(zen3) [myname@l55 ~]# +  * [[https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/basic_usage.html|Official documentation of SPACK]]
-</code> +
- +
-Mind that if your prompt is changed later, like when loading a ''python +
-environment'' using ''conda'', the correct ''spack environment'' might +
-not be shown correctly in your prompt. +
- +
-When a spack environment is activated, the command ''spack find -l'' lists those packages available for the active +
-environment. +
- +
-The command ''module avail'' will also show only those modules that are compatible with the active +
-spack environment. +
- +
- +
-==== Change Spack Environment ==== +
- +
-If you want to look for a certain package that belongs to another +
-architecture, first change the spack environment: +
- +
-<code> +
-$ spacktivate <myenv> +
-$ spacktivate cascadelake +
-</code> +
- +
-Only then ''spack find'' will show the modules for the active environment (e.g. ''cascadelake''). +
- +
- +
-==== Save Spack Environment ==== +
- +
-The following creates a load script for your current spack environment +
-with all loaded modules: +
- +
-<code> +
-$ spack env loads -r  +
-</code>+
  
-This creates a file called ''loads'' in the environment 
-directory. Sourcing that file in bash will make the environment 
-available to the user. The ''source loads'' command can be included in 
-''.bashrc'' files. The loads file may also be copied out of the 
-environment, renamed, etc. 
  
 +==== Load a module ====
  
-==== Load a Module ====+Most software is installed via SPACK, so you can use spack commands like ''spack find -ld xyz'' to get details about the installation. All these installations also provide a module, find available modules with ''module avail xyz'', and load with ''module load xyz''. See [[doku:spack|SPACK - a package manager for HPC systems]] for more information.
  
-Please always use spack, see [[doku:spack|SPACK - a package manager for +Some software is still installed by hand, find available modules with ''module avail xyz'', and load with ''module load xyz''.
-HPC systems]].+
  
  
-===== Compile Code =====+===== Compile code =====
  
 A program needs to be compiled on the hardware it will later run A program needs to be compiled on the hardware it will later run
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